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Health Bill [HL]

The interface between health and social care is very interesting. While we are on this, I seize the moment to say that when I broke my leg last year, various people came to help me, some with a social care background, others with a health background. If they were not trained, they were not allowed to get me up on to a gutter frame to help me walk. All they had to do was give me a little push, but if they were from one discipline, that was not possible for them. If they were older women who were more practical, they said, "Of course I will help you". That got me walking again. At a low practical level, it is important to know the difference between the two, and for there not to be such a difference between the two. It is nonsense if one is literally trying to get back on one’s feet after an illness. Paragraph 22 on page 28 of Personal Health Budgets: First Steps, says: ""Further guidance and regulations governing the use of healthcare direct payments will be produced in due course"." Can the Minister tell me roughly when that will be? It would be helpful to the Committee.